Fusion Hybrid Blvd

[vangonebuy]

NYPD is using its best cars for self promotion.

Guess which car they used.

I passed 10 hybrids on my way to work.

2 on each street crossing.

 

[hybridbear]

Very cool!!

[corncobs]

Very nice. You see Fusions as police cars quite often on the news not sure if they are all FFHs.

[hermans]

NYPD is using its best cars for self promotion.

Guess which car they used.

I passed 10 hybrids on my way to work.

2 on each street crossing.

 

NYPD has just over 1,000 FFH and Altima hybrids in service at this time.

Edited January 30, 2014 by hermans

[vangonebuy]

My FFH count continues for Super Bowl Blvd today.

All prominent locations like the picture.

 

2013-14 FFH 14

2012 FFH 4

Nissan Altima Hybd 0

 

 

Usually, I see many more 2012FFH's than 2013-14.

Also, Altima's. But none today.

 

I kinda like the pushbar look.

 

 

Very nice. You see Fusions as police cars quite often on the news not sure if they are all FFHs.

I haven't ever seen a NYPD Fusion of any year that wasn't a hybrid.

 

 

 

[acdii]

I see a lot of Taurus around here as PD.

[vangonebuy]

Friday's NYPD Fusion count.

From 34th to 43rd St. on Broadway.

 

 

2013-14 FFH 17

2012 FFH 1

GMC is the big sponsor here. But total 9 or10 trucks spread all over 20 streets.

Ford didn't sponsor.... But Fusion Hybrids are everywhere. Sparkling clean.

It's the most 13+ FFH's from NYPD, I've ever seen in NYC. Even combining days.

[Harvard]

I work at Harvard University in Cambride, Ma and they have their own police force which uses the FFH . Not sure how many vehicles they have but I have asked a few of them how they liked them and I got some strange responses!

A woman told me she thought the seat weren't very comfortable and a guy told me they shouldn't be using them as cruiser, probably would have prefered a gas guzzler not doubt!

[tr7driver]

Ia guy told me they shouldn't be using them as cruiser, probably would have prefered a gas guzzler not doubt!

i see a lot of cruisers sitting and idling, probably to power the heat in the winter and AC in the summer, plus with all the radios and equipment on board. That could be a challenge for a hybrid.

[hybridbear]

i see a lot of cruisers sitting and idling, probably to power the heat in the winter and AC in the summer, plus with all the radios and equipment on board. That could be a challenge for a hybrid.

Yes, but it's still better than a conventional car. Some similar applications of Escape Hybrids, Prii or first gen FFHs maybe only have returned 25-30 MPG, but it's a lot better than getting 15 MPG using a conventional car for those same duties. Edited February 2, 2014 by hybridbear

[tr7driver]

Not saying it's better or worse. Just thinking how a seasoned officer would perceive it. the need to learn how to manage a hybrid could be an issue if they are not motivated or don't have skin in the game. If they bought their own gas they might be more receptive. It cranks me off to see the cruisers idle all day, but that seems to be standard procedure in many

municipalities.

[hybridbear]

Not saying it's better or worse. Just thinking how a seasoned officer would perceive it. the need to learn how to manage a hybrid could be an issue if they are not motivated or don't have skin in the game. If they bought their own gas they might be more receptive. It cranks me off to see the cruisers idle all day, but that seems to be standard procedure in many

municipalities.

It annoys me to see them running too... I don't think many of the municipalities would bother asking their drivers to do anything special. More likely they choose to buy the hybrids because they know that hybrids will save them money even without drivers doing anything special. For example, in 2007, right after I graduated High School, I had an internship at Metro Transit, the entity who runs out public transit system. I worked in the System Planning dept and worked on a few different projects where I was taking one of the fleet vehicles to go gather data, etc. One of the pool cars was an old Civic Hybrid. Because I liked hybrids back then too, I tried to drive the Civic whenever possible. It's quite unlikely that anyone who drove it tried to maximize MPGs. I didn't really because I didn't know much about it back then. I just drove it like a normal car and was fascinated by the dash display showing the electric motor assist/charging. One project I worked on involved gathering license plate data at existing Park & Ride lots to get addresses from the DMV to determine where ppl were coming from to take the bus from the Park & Ride. This data is then used to figure out where to build new Park & Ride facilities. This involved a lot of idling and slowly crawling through parking lots, typing license plates into Excel on my laptop in my lap. The Civic Hybrid was a great car for this project because it wouldn't idle endlessly in the parking lot. The ICE would come on when the battery got low to charge it, but otherwise it would roll along in silence. The FFH police cars likely are useful for similar low speed, high idle uses in NYC.